Lately I have been collecting a little more and more "seriously" as the days go on and now I'm contemplating getting into things like this. The aura of just having it alone makes it tempting. Just slap a $1000 game on the 'ole credit card and pay it off bit by bit.. Granted, this one is going to go for a good bit more, I'm certain.

OK, I just need to keep telling myself that is a really, really bad idea.

Austin wrote:Lately I have been collecting a little more and more "seriously" as the days go on and now I'm contemplating getting into things like this. The aura of just having it alone makes it tempting. Just slap a $1000 game on the 'ole credit card and pay it off bit by bit.. Granted, this one is going to go for a good bit more, I'm certain.

OK, I just need to keep telling myself that is a really, really bad idea.

It's a bad idea if you plan to buy it outright. It's a HORRIBLE idea if you plan to put it on a credit card.

Well, yes and no.. I mean, one can game and collect, right? Air Raid isn't a quality game by any stretch of the word, so I have heard anyway, so it's possible even a gamer wouldn't play it. Of course they would try it a few times though (I know I would).

I don't mind collectors like bitrate for ex ... someone who has generously shared so much w/this community (both at large and privately) someone who obviously has a genuine passion for the console, someone who cares that much about 3DO (or any console for that matter) and has bought out the time to catalog and preserve a console's legacy, etc ... the list goes on.

But how many hoard just for the sake of hoarding ... for their stuff to collect dust? Who might have an M2 on their shelf for instance, just because" its cool & rare", yet all they know about it is what wikipedia says?

I hope whoever grabs this cart is to Atari like bitrate is to 3DO ... I hate to see stuff like this fall into the hands of people who don't really appreciate it.

Oh, without a doubt, I agree. They are bound to eventually get snapped up here and there by shrewd collectors that are simply looking for a rare piece or an investment, and I think it's sad when that happens.

I suppose at least we know through communities like this, or ones that revolve around the Atari, or ones for the NES, that there are people out there that are serious about both.

yeah the seller posted on AA and said he had it when he was a kid, said all of the other kids wanted to trade with him for it but then didn't want to after playing it... good thing it was a bad game cuz otherwise he would have missed out on all that money...